Process for dyeing fur and product thereof



Dec. 15, 1925- 1,566,066

' H. M. BECHER PROCESS FOR DYEING FUR AND PRODUCT THEREOF Filed Aug. 1925 E G 4 G D D D 1:: F F F F ATTORNEY MM Doc. is, 1925.

HAROLD I. BECKER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

ROB DYEING FUR AND PRODUCT THEREOF.

Application flied August 10, 1925. Serial No. 49,2 2.

1'o all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD M. Bncmm, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at 780 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Processes for Dyeing Fur and ProductThereof, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a process whereby a dressed or tanned skin or pelt having straight hair or fur on it, of white or light colors, may be dyed up to imitate two or more skins of fur-bearing animals, each of which, in its natural state, has a stripe or grotzen running down the center of the back and a color tone shading off to a lighter color, or to white, on the balance of the skin.

The skins of the fur-bearing animals referred to which can be imitated by means of the present process are light or dark ermines, or weasels, mink, sables, martens, and skins of similar nature, and any dyed shade of any of these furs mentioned.

A further object of the present process is to so treat a skin or pelt of the type referred to as to give the appearance of two or more of the particular skins to be imitated being sewn. or attached together.

The invention also extends to and embraces the product resulting from the pres out process.

In order that the present invention may be more clearly understood and readily carried into effect, the same will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view-of a dressed or tanned straight-haired skin or pelt, to which the present process is adapted to be applied.

Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views to Figure 1 showing, respectively, certain stages in the process; and,

Figs. 4i and 5 are plan views of stencils adapted to be used in the carrying out of said process.

The dressed or tanned pelt or skin, A shown in Fig. 1, which, for example, may be a goats skin, is first wetted with water or alcohol, or a mordant dissolved in water, or a weak solution of the subsequently applied dye, as may be preferred according to the particular skin under treatment. The dyes or colors are then applied with the aid of stencils, such as B and C, shown in Figs.

4 and 5, respectively. Two or more stencils are necessary to give the desired effect, and each subsequent stencil employed is provided with openings narrower than those of the preceding stencil. For example, suppose the stencil B of Fig. 4 is the first one to be used after the skin or pelt has been brought to the desired preliminary condition as above described, then it will have wide wide openings, D, and narrow bars E, while the next succeeding stencil, for example, C, shown in Fig. 5, will have nan rower openings, l, and wider bars, G, and so on. Assuming, for the purpose of iilustration, that the skin or pelt to be treated is white, as shown in Figure 1, the application of dye to that skin through said first stencil, B, will produce the effect shown in Fig. 2, that is to say, the wide openings, D, will allow the production of broad colored bands of fur, H, and the narrower bars, E, will retain on thepelt correspondingly thin strips, I, of the original white.

Stencil (l then substituted and stronger dye applied, which will have the effect of producing comparatively narrow dark colored stripes, K, superimposed centrally on the bands H and representing the grotzcn running down the center of the back of the pelt being imitated, the intervening portions of the pelt being covered and protected by the corresponding broad bars, G.

The dye applied through the first stencil is preferably diluted solution, which is increased in strength on being applied through each succeeding stencil.

The dye used may be any intermediate dye which subsequently develops its color through oxidation agents, such as peroxide of hydrogen and the like; or vegetable, basic or acid dyes may be employed.

The effect of the, application of the dye as above described will secure the shading of a pelt of the class specified in imitation of the coloringto be found on the more expensive skins of fur-bearing animals, that is to say, by providing a stripe or grotzen running down the center of the back and a color tone shading oii to a lighter color, or to white, on the balance of the skin.

If, in the process hereinbefore described. the lines between the various color tones are to be sharply defined, the dye is applied while the pelt is dry; on the other hand, if it is desired to blend the tones, then the dye is applied when the pelt is wet.

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It is to be linally noted that the completed pelt shown in Fig. 3 has founstri es or grotzens, K, on either side of whlch t ere 1s a lighter portion, H, and, finally, a whlte, narrow strip, I, dividing each two ]u xtaposed portions, H. Thus, there is provided a single skin of the class specified, having the appearance of a number of separate skins of the type imitated sewn or otherwise connected.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A process whereby a dressed or tanned straight-haired pelt may be dyed to i1nitate a pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has, in its natural state, a stripe or grotzen running down the center of the back and a color tone shading off to a lighter color, or to white, on the balance of the skin, comprising placing a plurality of stencils on the pelt to be treated in sequence and applying the desired dye to the skin through the openings in the stencils, the openings in the succeeding stencils decreasing in size.

2. A process whereby a dressed or tanned straight-haired pelt may be dyed to imitate a pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has, in its natural state, a stripe or grotzen running down the center of the back and a color tone shading oil to a lighter color, or to white, on the balance of the skin comprisin placing a stencil having wide openings and narrow bars on the elt to be treated and applying dye throng the openings thereof to impress a wide color band on the hair and leave narrow, unaffected portions bordering the same, removing said stencil and substituting a second stencil having narrower openings and wider bars than the first stencil to superimpose a darker stripe centrally of the wide color band, and then removing said stencil.

3. A process whereby a dressed or tanned straight-haired pelt may be dyed to imitate a pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has, in its natural state, a stripe or grotzen running down the center of the back and a color tone shading off to a lighter color, or to white, on the balance of the skin comprising placing a stencil having wide openings and narrow bars on the pelt to be treated and applying dye through the openings thereof to impress awide color band on the hair and leave narrow, unaffected portions bordering the same, removing said stencil and substitutin a second stencil having narrow openings and wider bars than the first-stencil to superimose a darker stripe centrall of the wide )and, and then removing said stencil, the finished product presenting the a pearance of a number of separate skins o the type being imitated joined together.

4. A process whereby a dressed or tanned straight-haired pelt may be dyed to imitate a pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has, in its natural state', a stripe or grotzen runmng down the center of the back and a color tone shading off to a lighter color, or to white,

on the balance of the skin,-comprising placing a plurality of stencils successively on the pelt to be treated whilst it is wet and applying the desired dye through the openings of the stencils.

5. A method of converting a dressed or tanned straight-haired pelt to represent the pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has a stripe or grotzen running down the center of the back and a color tone shading 01f to a lighter color, or to white, on the balance of the skin comprising applying a plurality of stencils to the pelt in succession, and aprplying a dye to the pelt through the openings in each stencil so applied, the succeeding coatings of dye being superimposed on the coating first applied.

6. A process whereby a dressed or tanned straight-haired pelt may be dyed to imitate a pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has, in its natural state, a stripe or grotzen running down the center of the back and a color tone shading oif to a lighter color, or to white, on the balance of the skin, comprising placing one after another a plurality of stencils of decreasing size on the pelt to be treated and applying dyes of increasing intensities through the decreasing openings in the stencils.

7. A dressed or tanned straight-haired pelt dyed to imitate a plurality of pelts of a fur-bearing animal WhlCh has, in its natural state, a stripe or grotzen running down the center of the back and a color tone shading off to a lighter color, or to white, on the balance of the skin.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

HARGLD M. BEGHER. 

